The pieces we heard last week

The Bradenburg concerto is a represent piece composed by Bach who considered the divine composer in Braque period.It”s a chamber work with the polyphony and terraced dynamic.The whole piece is quited square and active which the dominant reasons are the melody is quite smooth and rhythm is very precise.

Ravel’s is a impression keyboard work with sonata form.As we hearing,the swinging melody and colourful harmony purposing a kind of mood which is emotional and expressive.We also appreciate the rhythm is dance-like that give the audience a chromatic feeling with the changeable dynamic.

Prokofiev is bored in German who has been considered one of the greatest composer in contemporary period.His piece always reflect some social issues in that period such like the piano sonata NO.7.We can observed the piece is composed in A-B-A design and the first part is definitely contrast with the second part. The first part for me is very active but aggressive,the main reason is the disjunct harmony and the erratic rhythm.Obviously it reflect the the battle scene which is the from the Second War.

Makvokosmos is a famous modern piece composed by George Gramb.The piece use a kind of new technique which is struck the piano and mute the string.This keyboard work also used pedal sustained and glissando which are the main character of it.The rhythm is extremely free and the melody even is quite weir that present to audience a kind of mood which is creepy.

The status of classical music in nowadays for people

Some young critic believe classical music is meaningless and doomed to wane,finally the pop music will be the mainstream instead of classical music.The typical example is a book called”Who care classical music” written by a American critic who named Glenn Kurt. The book represent a series of reasons why classical music has been destroy and imply classical music finally will be replace by pop music.

Actually, the true is Classical music is become glam increasingly in our generation even eighty percent young people who live in Europe consider that the classical music is highly affect to people in different ways from the recently survey.

This thesis purpose to introduce the function of classical music and explore the status of classical music in nowadays society.

Firstly,I admit the fact which is classical music was not so popular in last twenty years ago just like the book said.But main reasons is not Classical music lack of fascination.The fact is there were too many things happened in these fifty years such like: The American revolution,first moon landing and so on.the economy of the world also was developing speedy.The whole world need a kind of spirit which is ebullient and wild,people need impact for their vision and hearing. But classical music always embody the mood implicitly and need people listen with carefully which is not quite possible in that period. That’s the reason why people enjoyed the pop music even the rock music enthusiastically and classical music is oblivious.

In nowadays,I believe classical is returning and definitely can be the mainstream in this period,not like Glenn Kurt predict” However, it's obvious that classical music is not important to most people.The implication is that classical music, like 19th-century narrative, is not popular because its form of narrative has become antiquated……………….. But the grand narratives of Beethoven or Melville seem alien to most people. This is not the form in which they understand their lives.”

People are suffering too many stress even many people have some mental illness such like melancholia or insomnia. They need a kind of way release the stress and purify their soul.Listen classical music is the most valuable solution for that.The famous philosopher Aristoteles said:” music(classical) has incredible power to form person”.

The reflection for english lessons

To tell the truth, My English is highly promoting in this semester especially the writing. The main reason of it is blog writing. Actually I did this before and here is my blog address: http://user.qzone.qq.com/272667954. I think I definitely will keep the blog writing next semester and I really want to say "thank you" to Chris. He really helped me a lot and I quite enjoy his teaching style. Hope he can be our English tutor next semester :)

For next semester, I hope the English lesson can pay more attention about academic writing and will read more academic article that our English can support other lessons better.

Thanks!